Security News

Firefox 39 Out With Patches for Four Critical Vulnerabilities (Threatpost)
2015-07-08 18:32

Mozilla has rolled out a new version of its Firefox browser, an update that includes patches for four critical security vulnerabilities and several less-severe bugs. IN all, Firefox 39 patches 13...

FBI Director to Silicon Valley: ‘Try Harder’ to Find ‘Going Dark’ Solution (Threatpost)
2015-07-08 18:07

FBI director James Comey and Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates testified before a Senate committee on how encryption is hampering law enforcement and national security efforts.

Wendy Nather on the Retail Cyber Intelligence Sharing Center (Threatpost)
2015-07-08 16:16

Dennis Fisher talks with Wendy Nather about her new role as the research director at R-CISC, the challenges of getting companies to share threat intelligence, how smaller retails can deal with...

Hacking Team Flash Zero Day Weaponized in Exploit Kits (Threatpost)
2015-07-08 15:19

Three exploit kits--Angler, Nuclear Pack and Neutrino--have already weaponized the Adobe Flash Player zero day found among the data stolen from Hacking Team.

Sophisticated, successful Morpho APT group is after corporate data (Help Net Security)
2015-07-08 15:00

Two reports published on Wednesday by Symantec and Kaspersky Lab detail the recent attacks executed by an unusual APT group they have dubbed Morpho and Wild Neutron. The group was first spotted in ...

Hacking Team Plans to Continue Operations (Threatpost)
2015-07-08 13:35

UPDATE–It has been absolutely brutal week for Hacking Team. All of the company’s documents, internal communications, emails with customers, and invoices have been published, including its dealings...

Teenage Lizard Squad hacker found guilty of 50,700 charges (Help Net Security)
2015-07-08 13:32

A 17-year-old member of the infamous Lizard Squad has been found guilty of 50,700 charges by a Finnish court, but won't serve his sentence in a prison. Among other things, Julius Kivimaki (also kno...

Security experts explain to US, UK governments why mandated encryption backdoors are a bad idea (Help Net Security)
2015-07-08 12:06

Today, FBI director James Comey and Sally Quillian Yates, the deputy attorney general at the Justice Department, are scheduled to address the US Senate Judiciary Committee about law enforcement's need...

Threat intelligence: Sources, sharing, utilization and the government (Help Net Security)
2015-07-08 10:06

More than three quarters of IT security professionals (81%) believe the government should be sharing more threat intelligence information with the private sector, according to AlienVault research. ...

Flash 0-day exploit found in Hacking Team's leaked data exploited by criminals (Help Net Security)
2015-07-08 07:17

Human rights and privacy activists and journalists are actively reviewing the data stolen in the Hacking Team breach. Reporters of The Intercept have concentrated on going through the leaked emails...